Toasting apparatus



A length of Patented Mar. 28, 1939 2,151,695 TOASTING APPARATUS Alvin C. Goddard,

Toastolator Forest Company,

muss. Y.

New York,

assignor to Inc., N. Y., a

corporation of New York Application December 18, 1936, Serial No.

6 Claims.

a toasting apparatus of the horizontally between a pair and more particularly to mechanism whereby the the horizontal movements may be increased or decreased in accordance with an increase or decrease in the temperature of the heating elements so as latter and provide for a predetermined toasting effect for a given distance of travel of the bread. A toasting apparatus of the above indicated type is described in a patent of De Matteis and Goddard No. 2,112,075 of March 22, 1938. In apparatus of this type a pair of heating elements are spaced to provide a horizontal toasting passage through which the bread to be toastbetween suitable guides. The supportrail or pair of bottom of the toasting passage, support the toast between the guides. An advancing element comprising a bar, or pair of bars, extending alongside of the supporting rails is periodically lifted above the rails bread free of them, then advance a short distance and lowered below the rails whereby the bread will be advanced at intervals through the passage so that effect for as long a time as p0 intense toasting the bread is i 'tially pushed the passage so as to give it a shorter path of toasting. or a given length of path the toastwill depend upon the temperature of the heating elements which, in the case of electric heating elements of fixed reflecting surface,- will depend upon the voltage.

Consequently, a is adjusted to give, the proper toasting effect with a given path of travel and time of passage will give a lesser toasting effect it the toaster be used at a point in the electric distribution system where the voltage is lower as, for example, nearer the end of the transmis sion or supply line.

My present invention provides a means wherethe toaster may be adjusted to different voltages so that when the voltage is lower, a longer time is required for the passage through a given distance between the heating elements and, with big er voltages, the toasting time for a given distance may be lowered. In the intermittent. type of toaster this may be accomplished by shortening the horizontal movement of the advancing toaster which to raise the mechanism so that the rate of movement is lowered and the time increased The various features of the invention are trated in the accompanying drawing,

illusin which- Fig. 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of a toaster of the i ing mechanism therefor.

termittent type embodying a preferred form of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view and control or regulating means of a toast advanc- Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of elements of the advancing means,

Fig. 5 is a horizontal line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

and

longitudinal section on In the embodiment illustrated in the accom- 2,112,0'I5 of ii, of which kept from contact with inclined guide of the casing onto a plat is removed.

its passage wires and heating elements drawing the invention is shown as apthe type of toaster shown in March 22, 1938,

Patent the toast and passes which being guided the toast passes out between the guide ii the toast is at intervals supported on longitudinally extending bars ll from which it is lifted toothed bar or intervals to lift the at intervals by a bars IS, the bars being raised at toast from the supporting bars M, then moved to the le t of Fig. 1 and a ain deposit the bread in a new tion to be again lifted and moved. The bar or guided a carrying member It or limited vertical and horizontal movement and which is provided with a pair of eccentric openings i1 and i8.

Suitable eccentrics or cams in the openings 11 transverse to the wheels 2| and- 22 worms 23 and shaft 25 driven by a phase. bars 15 are raised equally and worms 23- and 24 are supported on a common motor 26 driven in synchronism and in the same each 19 and 20 rotate and i8, respectively, on axes bars it and are driven by gear so that the eccenendoi the advancing and, at the same time,

pass through the same movements of translation.

In the present invention one l1 may be partly closed to of the openings a greater or less extent may be a greater or less amount of play between theopposite verticalsides of this sions of this opening may opening and the eccentric or cam. Otherwise stated, the

horizontal dimenbe varied so that when 24. The

moved tewerd the right, there 18 n 1 88 Or play other embodiments which require an adjustment between the eccentric and the sides of the openof the time necessary for bread to pass throughmovement 01 the eccentric will be transmitted heating or toasting elements.

5 to the support it and bar It, and it will have What I claim is- 5 a maximum horizontal movement during each 1. Bread toasting apparatus comprising a pair cycle. When the bar 21 is adjusted to the left or heating elements spaced to form a toasting of Figs. 1 and 2 so that there is some play bepassage, supporting means at the bottom of said tween the vertical edges or the opening I! and passage comprising recurrently acting means e cce ic o c m. th e will be a l st m i p'cyclically to lifta slice of bread from fixed positio w 5 e emen s and be! l5 du each Cycle will be directions, and adjustable means to provide a quently, a longer period of time for the bread to heating elements spaced to form a toasting pasgo Pass a en d n Therefore, w the Volt sage, a supporting bar extending longitudinally age on the heating elements H is lower than the i th low r part of said passage, an advancing maximum forwhich the toaster is designed, the bar positioned alongside of said supporting bar,

in its various positions of adjustment may be empair of eccentrics rotating one in each opening on- 35 screw 29 may be threaded. The screw 29 has a toasting passage between said elements, recurneck which receives a projection or flange 30 exrently acting means comprising a movable bar tending sidewise from the plate 21 and notched at supporting element having a pair of openings, a II to pass througha neck 32 on the screw between pair of eccentrics rotating one in each openin on a flange II and head 34 of the screw. axes tranverse to said passage to lift and advance From the above it will be apparent that the bread to be toasted at successive intervals in said screw 29 may rotate freely relatively to the plate p sag a plate s id h i n a y to var he 1 ing mechanism is not required for the plate I 8 as in said opening on an axis transverse to said pas- 55 1938, a will be obvious that it may be applied to ALVIN c. GODDARD. 

